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Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
That's right: I've tried to group the lines to show the three distinct patterns and that they repeat.
Because it's kind of conceptual, the dashes/letters just show a region of a virtual fretboard (tuned in 4ths)...I've only put letters in to show where the patterns come from (there aren't any string names but the lower pitches are at the bottom). It's not a map of the fretboard...more a visualisation tool.
An example: if I was playing a standard guitar in the key of C and my first finger was on the 2nd fret of the A-string, I'd be starting on an -xx-x- pattern...I know what's above and below...or I could shift along one fret and be on the middle line of an -x-x-x- pattern, etc.
Christ...I hope that makes sense to someone other than me
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Only Joking!
Serious answer is that I see "Root Notes" or "Chord Shapes" in various guises. Sometimes I see a sliding scale on one String.
Sometimes I see "dots" to give me reference, the reference to the old Position 1 of any key and just take it from there.
It's funny but after years of playing, sometimes you just seem to land on the right note without looking. Fucker of a journey though..........................................and the journey continues!
That's fine but I tend to 'hear' it the same way as Beethoven did !
Down with this sort of thing.
I've been teaching this kid for 3 years. He's just turned 15. He's been playing for 4 years but knew no theory or how to more easily bend properly etc. So he wanted to go his GCSE early so needed 2 pieces of music for the performance and compilation. He came with a great piece he wrote himself but had to pick a song form a list for the performance piece. These songs have a number rating which denotes how hard they are. This one, Sultans of Swing was rated 9 along with Eruption and some dream theatre stuff so he picked this. It was the first piece he's ever played with his fingers, normally we do hybrid picking but used fingers to get a more Knopfler sound
There was 2 and a half weeks for him to learn the tune, the main structure is pretty simple but there's a lot of fills to remember as well as the solo's. However if you analyse it then literally every lick is built round an arpeggio of whatever chord it's sitting on. So he's not remember fret numbers, he's see'ing the chords all over the neck
I think this song is a fantastic example of how to see the neck, certainly how I see it and teach it anyway.